Writing revolution in Latin America : from Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño / Juan E. De Castro.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• De Castro, Juan E., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
• Latin American fiction.
• Revolutionary literature, Latin American--History and criticism.
• Revolutions in literature.
• Revolutionary literature, Latin American.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"A chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in Latin American fiction composed from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Revolution before revolution : José Martí and José Carlos Mariátegui
• Boom in the revolution, revolution in the boom : what is revolutionary about the Latin American novel of the 1960s?
• The fall of the revolutionary and the return of liberal democracy : Vargas Llosa's The real life of Alejandro Mayta (1986) and Manuel Puig's Kiss of the spider woman
• Revolution after the demise of revolution : Roberto Bolaño and Carla Guelfenbein on social change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: De Castro, Juan E., 1959- author. Writing revolution in Latin America

ISBN:

• 9780826522580
• 0826522580
• 9780826522597
• 0826522599

OCLC:

1099543919